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Unsettling Lent

Author : Angela Parker
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827238665
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Lent written by Angela Parker and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsettling Lent: Following Jesus to the Cross is not your ordinary Lenten devotional. That's a good thing, given the ways Lent's radical meaning has been diminished by our culture's false promotion of religious complacency. By connecting the biblical story to present-day realities, it invites Christians to make Lent a season of solidarity and justice-seeking. In contrast to devotionals emphasizing personal spirituality and interior transformations, Unsettling Lent emphasizes the public implications and communal aspects of self-denial, sacrificial love, and confrontations with power. Followers of Jesus are invited to journey to the cross in a more faithful way that promises to harness the power of this season for the renewal of ourselves, our churches, and our world.

Unsettling Lent

Author : Angela Parker
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827238657
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Lent written by Angela Parker and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsettling Lent: Following Jesus to the Cross is not your ordinary Lenten devotional. That's a good thing, given the ways Lent's radical meaning has been diminished by our culture's false promotion of religious complacency. By connecting the biblical story to present-day realities, it invites Christians to make Lent a season of solidarity and justice-seeking. In contrast to devotionals emphasizing personal spirituality and interior transformations, Unsettling Lent emphasizes the public implications and communal aspects of self-denial, sacrificial love, and confrontations with power. Followers of Jesus are invited to journey to the cross in a more faithful way that promises to harness the power of this season for the renewal of ourselves, our churches, and our world.

The Unsettling

Author : Peter Rock
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1940436303
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Unsettling written by Peter Rock and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populated by strangers, ghosts, and other shadowy figures, the thirteen stories in The Unsettling attend to those startling moments when what we have understood as familiar is suddenly revealed as mysterious and foreign. A lonely man saving library books from an outbreak of mold listens to a coworker's tale about a blind woman and imbues it with his own sense of romance; a woman drives a Gold Firebird through the desert with a television playing "Rockford Files" reruns on the passenger seat; and a girl returns to her childhood home to spy on its new inhabitants, not realizing they are aware of her surveillance; a Poe–obsessed medical examiner constructs ornate scenes in an attempt to provoke hope in the forgotten lives of a dark and desperate city. Told through Rock's imaginative and wholly original voice, these are haunted tales about fascination, transformation, and the relationship between the two.

Sense and Sensibility

Author : Sam Portaro
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640651284
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Sense and Sensibility written by Sam Portaro and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-11-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily Lenten reflections with a novel approach. Lent is often a season given to denial of physical pleasure and sensation, but we're already denied these by a cultural atmosphere saturated with visual images, noise and air pollution, violence, and processed foods that dull the senses. The physical senses play an integral role in the human capacity for emotion and feeling. Overstimulation in the physical senses gradually erodes one’s ability to feel emotion. Yet empathy—emotional identification and connection with others—is crucial to liturgical engagement, especially in the highly dramatic practices of the signal events of the Christian Year. Sam Portaro proposes to restore our ability to participate emotionally in the Lenten journey by revisiting the five physical senses—one per week—in Lent. The discipline of a 40-day preparation for Easter suggests the importance the Church places on this seasonal retelling of the central acts of Christian redemption. Sense and Sensibility encourages the reader to renew a relationship with the physical senses that is a prerequisite to a deeply attuned engagement with the biblical stories read, taught, and liturgically re-enacted in the rites of Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter.

Lent with Evelyn Underhill

Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819214493
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Lent with Evelyn Underhill written by Evelyn Underhill and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection from Underhill's enduring devotional writings, chosen for their pertinence to Lenten themes. Half a century has passed since Evelyn Underhill's death, yet her devotional writings have endured as a beacon to those who seek a deeper understanding of the "interior life" in the mystical Christian tradition. The editor's personal discovery of Underhill's works when he was a young student at General Theological Seminary moved him to pursue an extensive knowledge of her writings. From these he has skillfully culled readings appropriate for every day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Eve and broadly following liturgical themes. Now back in print, these selections were chosen with the purpose of deepening Lenten observance by allowing the reader to follow the thought of Underhill, from the "spiritual stocktaking" theme for Ash Wednesday to Easter Saturday's joyous anticipation of God's ultimate Gift.

Unsettling Stories

Author : Victoria Kuttainen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818127
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Stories written by Victoria Kuttainen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the synergies between postcolonialism and the genre of the short story composite, Unsettling Stories considers how the form of the interconnected short story collection is well suited to expressing thematic aspects of postcolonial writing on settler terrain. Unique for its comparative considerations of American, Canadian, and Australian literature within the purview of postcolonial studies, this is also a considered study of the difficult place of the postcolonial settler subject within academic debates and literature. Close readings of work by Tim Winton, Margaret Laurence, William Faulkner, Stephen Leacock, Sherwood Anderson, Olga Masters, Scott R. Sanders, Thea Astley, Tim O’Brien and Sandra Birdsell are positioned alongside critical discussions of postcolonial theory to show how awkward affiliations of individuals to place, home, nation, culture, and history expressed in short story composites can be usefully positioned within the broader context of settler colonialism and its aftermath.

Give Up Something Bad for Lent

Author : James Wendell Moore
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426753691
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Give Up Something Bad for Lent written by James Wendell Moore and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrap your arms around the "Good News" for Lent.

Meditations for the forty days of Lent

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Meditations for the forty days of Lent written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Disturbing Practices

Author : Laura Doan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022600158X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing Practices written by Laura Doan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of sexuality in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century and also the way it is studied.

Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

Author : Jeffrey Melnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1948924773
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl written by Jeffrey Melnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds. Even now, it is almost impossible to discuss the sixties, teenage runaways, sexuality, drugs, music, California, or even the concept of family without referencing Manson and his "girls." Not just another Charles Manson history, Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family explores how the Family weren't so much outsiders as emblematic of the Los Angeles counterculture freak scene, and how Manson worked to connect himself to the mainstream of the time. Ever since they spent two nights killing seven residents of Los Angeles—what we now know as the "Tate-LaBianca murders"—the Manson family has rarely slipped from the American radar for long. From Emma Cline's The Girls to the TV show Aquarius, as well as two major films in 2019, including Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the family continues to find an audience. What is it about Charles Manson and his family that captivates us still? Author Jeffrey Melnick sets out to answer this question in this fascinating and compulsively readable cultural history of the Family and their influence from 1969 to the present.

Unsettling Jewish Knowledge

Author : Anne C. Dailey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824313
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling Jewish Knowledge written by Anne C. Dailey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the fields of literature, history, philosophy, and theology, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge adopts a fresh approach to the study of Jewish thought and culture. By creatively foregrounding the role of emotions, senses, and the imagination in Jewish experience, the book invites readers to consider what it means for Jewish identity and experience to be constituted outside the frameworks of reasoned thought and inquiry. The collection's eight essays offer innovative and provocative approaches to a diverse array of topics including modern Jewish-Christian relations, the book of Isaiah, contemporary Jewish fiction, and philosophical meditations on Jewish law. Their bold interpretations of Jewish texts and histories are centered on questions of faith, loss, prejudice, and enchantment--and the darker implications of these questions. The book's essays also illuminate the importance of desire as a key motivating force in the pursuit of knowledge. Weaving together insights from several disciplines, Unsettling Jewish Knowledge challenges us to grapple with the unexpected, the unconventional, and the uncomfortable aspects of Jewish experience and its representations. Contributors: Anne C. Dailey, John Efron, Yael S. Feldman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Martin Kavka, Lital Levy, Shaul Magid, Eva Mroczek, Paul E. Nahme, Eli Schonfeld, Shira Stav.

The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey

Author : Brian Zahnd
Publisher : Spello Press
ISBN 13 : 9780966842104
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey written by Brian Zahnd and published by Spello Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unvarnished Jesus is a forty-six day Lenten journey taking the reader from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday on a quest to encounter Jesus in a new and startling way. These forty-six daily meditations on the life and ministry of Jesus drawn from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are a spiritual solvent to help remove the layers of lacquer comprised of political and cultural assumptions that prevent us from seeing just how challenging and compelling Jesus of Nazareth really is. The Unvarnished Jesus is a forty-six day project to restore the incomparable image of Christ.

Leni Riefenstahl

Author : Rainer Rother
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826470238
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Leni Riefenstahl written by Rainer Rother and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leni Riefenstahl, now aged 101, achieved fame as a dancer, actress photographer, and director, but her entire career is colored by her association with the Nazi party. This overt tension between the political meaning of her work for National Socialism and its essential aesthetic quality forms the basis of the compelling account. Appointed by Hitler, Leni Riefenstahl directed the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens along with her bestknown work Olympia, a documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. By 1939 Riefenstahl was arguably the most famous women film director in the world; yet, after World War II, she was never again accepted as a filmmaker. Rainer Rother's book is a remarkable account of the fascinating life and work of Germany's most controversial photographer and filmmaker.

Grace and Conformity

Author : Stephen Hampton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190084332
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Grace and Conformity written by Stephen Hampton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformed Conformity that flourished within the Early Stuart English Church was a rich, vibrant, and distinctive theological tradition that has never before been studied in its own right. While scholars have observed how Reformed Conformists clashed with Laudians and Puritans alike, no sustained academic study of their teaching on grace and their attitude to the Church has yet been undertaken, despite the centrality of these topics to Early Stuart theological controversy. This ground-breaking monograph recovers this essential strand of Early Stuart Christian identity. It examines and analyses the teachings and writings of ten prominent theologians, all of whom made significant contributions to the debates that arose within the Church of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I and all of whom combined loyalty to orthodox Reformed teaching on grace and salvation with a commitment to the established polity of the English Church. The study makes the case for the coherence of their theological vision by underlining the connections that these Reformed Conformists made between their teaching on grace and their approach to Church order and liturgy. By engaging with a robust and influential theological tradition that was neither puritan nor Laudian, Grace and Conformity significantly enriches our account of the Early Stuart Church and contributes to the ongoing scholarly reappraisal of the wider Reformed tradition. It builds on the resurgence of academic interest in British soteriological discussion, and uses that discussion, as previous studies have not, to gain valuable new insights into Early Stuart ecclesiology.

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

Author : Stephen Bottoms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827243
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee written by Stephen Bottoms and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Albee, perhaps best known for his acclaimed and infamous 1960s drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, is one of America's greatest living playwrights. Now in his seventies, he is still writing challenging, award-winning dramas. This collection of essays on Albee, which includes contributions from the leading commentators on Albee's work, brings fresh critical insights to bear by exploring the full scope of the playwright's career, from his 1959 breakthrough with The Zoo Story to his recent Broadway success, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002). The contributors include scholars of both theatre and English literature, and the essays thus consider the plays both as literary texts and as performed drama. The collection considers a number of Albee's lesser-known and neglected works, provides a comprehensive introduction and overview, and includes an exclusive, original interview with Mr Albee, on topics spanning his whole career.

Making a Holy Lent

Author : Fr. Bill Casey
Publisher : EWTN Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1682780503
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Making a Holy Lent written by Fr. Bill Casey and published by EWTN Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lent calls us to ponder the reality of Jesus Christ and the salvation He offers. In these compelling pages, EWTN host Fr. Bill Casey turns our attention to Jesus in brief reflections on topics ranging from the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist to the role that the Blessed Virgin Mary plays in every healthy prayer life. Drawing on years of experience as a retreat master and as a regular EWTN host, Father Casey leavens each of these holy topics with a refreshing dose of common sense. Not only is this book perfectly suited for your Lenten devotions; you will find yourself turning to it many times during the year to remind you of the ever-urgent need for repentance and rebirth. Now is the right time for Making a Holy Lent. Reading and praying over just one chapter a week will take you from the winter of Ash Wednesday to the spring of Easter, making this coming Lent the holiest you’ve ever experienced.

Unsettling the West

Author : JoAnn Levy
Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling the West written by JoAnn Levy and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2004 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of 1849, an estimated thirty-nine thousand gold-seekers had arrived in San Francisco by sea, and some thirty thousand others had crossed the continent on land. Another eighty-six thousand would arrive in 1850. According to the census for that year. there were twelve men for every woman in California. But who would want them? The words "gold rush" generate at best an image of raucous, all-male camaraderie, at worst a storm of lawless and irredeemable violence. Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham, a young widow who had already generated considerable attention for herself as the matron of Sing Sing prison, had a vision for California. "Woman, with all her kindly cares and powers, so peculiarly conservative to man under such circumstances," would bring a civilizing influence to the state. Farnham's vision went beyond gentility however, to a society in which individuals -- male or female -- could fulfill their potential, and virtues championed by free-thinking New England philosophers would reign supreme. The realities of everyday life in gold-rush California were daunting, but when Farnham's friend Georgiana Bruce (later Kirby) joined her the following year, hope returned in full measure: "She fills up a great place in my dark world and comes to me like a pleasant breeze or a bright sun after one of our long rains. We are going to be very independent and free...dashing about at our discretion." The stories of these "sisters on the way to the vast Beyond," as Farnham called them, could not be told separately. With insight, wit, and telling detail, JoAnn Levy relates the scope and outcome of their quest for human perfectibility in this account of two remarkable and redoubtable women in frontier California. Book jacket.